Alumni Profiles
Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.
How a Harvard Hockey Legend Became a Needlepoint Artist
Joe Bertagna’s retirement project recreates figures from Boston sports history.
Found in Translation
Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
by Oset Babür
Composer Ashley Fure unleashes her visceral opera “The Force of Things”
Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.
Alec Karakatsanis fights for criminal-justice reform in the U.S. legal system
Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.
Polaroid photographer and "The B-Side" subject Elsa Dorfman, profiled
Elsa Dorfman, BI ’73, looks back on her photography.
Brief life of Carl Thorne-Thomsen, Vietnam veteran from Harvard
Brief life of a man of principle: 1946-1967
Songwriter and Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson reclaims his hits on "Re-Covered"
The Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson reclaims his catalog.
Malka Older’s global sci-fi
Sci-fi meets the political thriller.
Harvard alumnus James Coe is a Hudson Valley painter and bird artist
Landscape and bird artist James Coe reflects the Hudson Valley
The role of a “Posse” in higher education
Harvard alumna Debbie Bial's Posse Foundation and a “new national leadership pipeline”
Slow and Steady Wins the Pulitzer
David Fahrenthold ’00 will continue to hold President Trump accountable.
by Oset Babür